Cottage cheese can be called a universal product, because a wide variety of dishes are prepared with it: from sweet to savory. However, its culinary potential is best revealed in baking. After all, cottage cheese can be used not only as a filling, but also added to the dough, then it turns out especially tender. That’s why there are so many variations of pies, cheesecakes and cookies with cottage cheese. So that you do not get lost in this diversity, in our article we have collected the best recipes for sweet curd pastries from our users. Get inspired and experiment with us!
How to fry pies with cottage cheese in a frying pan
You can bake not only in the oven, and not only in the oven. If you don’t have an oven or time, but really want baked goods, pan-fried pies will help you out. But remember that they have more calories than baked ones, and too much fried food is not the best food for the liver.
Simple recipe
Ingredients Quantity
| water - | a couple of glasses |
| flour - | about 1200 g |
| eggs - | 3 pcs. |
| fresh yeast - | 75 g |
| salt and sugar - | a teaspoon |
| vegetable oil - | cup |
| low-fat cottage cheese - | 0.8 kg |
Prepare fried pies with cottage cheese in a frying pan according to this recipe to please your loved ones with delicacies within an hour. If you are not in a hurry, leave the dough warm after cooking for another half an hour so that it rises better.
Mix yeast, sugar and half a glass of warm water. Pour a glass of flour into a bowl, pour water with yeast into it and stir. Mix again, place in a warm place for 15 minutes and cover with a cloth.
Now add the rest of the flour, a glass of butter and salt. Stir, add the rest of the water and knead. Keep warm while preparing the filling.
Mash the cottage cheese with a spoon, add eggs, sugar and salt to it. Mix, you can beat in a blender.
Form the dough into roughly balls and roll out with a rolling pin. Place the filling in the center and join the edges.
Heat the frying pan. Add frying oil to it. Place the pies in portions and fry on each side for about three minutes.
Recipe 1: Cottage cheese dough for rolls
Using this recipe you can bake such bright and beautiful rolls, everyone will simply be delighted. Sprinkle them with colored coconut flakes, preferably bright colors; even those who don’t really like the coconut taste will happily eat the curd version.
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese (250 grams),
- sugar (100 grams),
- flour (280 grams),
- baking powder,
- egg (1 piece),
- butter (50 grams). Filling:
- coconut flakes,
- sugar,
- cinnamon,
- vegetable oil.
Cooking method
Sift the flour and mix it with baking powder. Mix melted butter with cottage cheese and add flour. Beat the egg with sugar, using a mixer. Mix all ingredients and knead the dough. Leave it to rest for 30 minutes in the refrigerator. Filling: place coconut shavings in a small bowl and grind with three tablespoons of sugar. Sprinkle flour on a cutting surface and roll out the dough into a rectangular shape. Lubricate with vegetable oil with a brush, spread and level the filling over the entire surface.
Roll up the roll and cut into pieces 2 cm thick. The second part of the dough is made in the same way, but the filling is sugar mixed with cinnamon. Place the resulting spirals on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Since the products expand in volume during baking, leave some space on the baking sheet. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for about 15-20 minutes. If you like sweeter baked goods, sprinkle the finished rolls with powdered sugar.
Curd dough for pies
The curd dough is easy to prepare, yet it is unusually tender, airy and simply melts in your mouth. Its only disadvantage compared to regular yeast dough for pies is that it quickly becomes stale, so you shouldn’t make a lot of products from it with a supply of several days. Both cookies and bagels are made from it, and we will tell you how to prepare curd dough for pies.
Curd dough for fried pies
The recipe for making dough for pies is simple and accessible. Even a novice housewife can handle it.
Ingredients:
- flour – 2 cups;
- cottage cheese – 0.5 kg;
- eggs – 4 pcs.;
- sugar – 2 tbsp. spoons;
- salt – 0.5 teaspoon;
- baking soda, slaked with vinegar - 1 teaspoon.
Preparation
Beat eggs with sugar, add salt and mix. Grind the cottage cheese through a sieve or beat in a blender, combine with eggs and add soda, quenched with vinegar. Sift the flour and combine all the ingredients. The dough should be very soft. If it gets a little sticky, don't worry, it's supposed to be that way. Do not add excess flour, otherwise the airiness will not be achieved. Leave the dough for 40 minutes, covering it with a napkin. After this, you can proceed directly to forming the pies.
When choosing cottage cheese, pay attention to its quality. If it is too wet, you will need more flour, and as we already know, this will not have the best effect on the dough.
Cottage cheese dough for baked pies
Ingredients:
- low-fat cottage cheese – 0.3 kg;
- flour – 7 tbsp. spoon;
- eggs – 2 pcs.;
- sunflower oil – 4 tbsp. spoons;
- salt - a pinch;
- baking powder – 1 sachet.
Preparation
Combine cottage cheese with eggs, butter, salt, add baking powder and knead everything until smooth. It is convenient to use a blender for these purposes. If you don’t have a blender, then a regular mixer will do. Gradually add flour to the resulting mass. Mix the dough. It should be the same as for dumplings and dumplings, that is, quite dense. If the dough is not elastic enough, add a little sunflower oil; if the dough is sticky, add a little flour.
Now sprinkle the work surface with flour, roll out the resulting dough into a “sausage”, cut it into pieces and form pies.
Recipe for curd dough with kefir for fried pies
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese – 200 g;
- flour – 550 g;
- eggs – 2 pcs.;
- kefir – 220 ml;
- sugar – 1 tbsp. spoon;
- salt – 0.5 teaspoon;
- sunflower oil – 2 tbsp. spoons;
- soda – 1 teaspoon.
Preparation
Combine cottage cheese with eggs, add kefir, sugar, salt, butter. Beat everything until smooth. Sift 400 g of flour, add soda to it, combine with the curd-kefir mass and knead the dough. Pour the rest of the flour onto the surface where we will knead, put the dough on it and knead until smooth. Cover it and leave for 15 minutes, and then prepare pies with filling to your taste.
Curd puff pastry for pies
Ingredients:
- flour – 300 g;
- fat cottage cheese – 300 g;
- margarine – 200 g;
- salt - a pinch.
Preparation
It is convenient to prepare such dough in the evening, and make pies from it in the morning. So, grind the cottage cheese until smooth, chop the margarine with a knife along with the flour, add salt and knead the dough. Now we roll it into a ball shape, put it in a bowl and put it in the refrigerator overnight, and in the morning you can make pies from it. Before baking, roll out the dough into a layer on a surface previously sprinkled with flour, then fold it several times and roll it out again. We do this procedure 3-4 times. We do this so that the dough becomes flaky and more airy.
Have you tried cottage cheese dough? Try yeast, well, very tasty yeast dough for pies.
Recipe 2: Curd dough for apple pie
Tender, aromatic and dietary apple pie is very healthy, and most importantly, delicious. Perfect for tea drinking, as a dessert, and good cold...
Ingredients:
Dough:
- cottage cheese (250 grams),
- vegetable oil (6 tablespoons),
- flour (1-2 cups),
- eggs (2 pcs),
- soda (half a spoon),
- sugar (4 spoons).
Filling:
- apples (2 pcs),
- sugar (2 spoons),
- some sour berries, maybe frozen cranberries, lingonberries, pitted cherries.
Cooking method
Beat eggs with sugar and add mashed cottage cheese. Mix the vegetable oil with the mixture and rub well again. Add flour and knead the dough. Mix baking soda into flour while sifting. Set aside some dough to decorate the pie. Roll out the dough in the form of a flat cake, place it in the mold so that sides are formed.
Filling: cut apples into pieces and mix with sugar. Drain the juice from the defrosted berries and place them on top of the apples, sprinkle with sugar. Place strips of dough on top and form a lattice. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake for 30-40 minutes. Cool the finished pie thoroughly before cutting.
Puff pastries with dried apricots and cottage cheese in a frying pan
Sweet dried apricots go well with cottage cheese. If you make it from scratch, this is a complicated recipe. If you already have the dough ready, skip the first step and defrost the dough according to the package instructions.
You will need:
- flour – 1 kg;
- a glass of cool water;
- salt – 1 tsp;
- sugar – 1 tbsp. l.;
- butter or margarine – 0.5 kg;
- dried apricots – 0.2 kg;
- cottage cheese – 180-200 g;
- oil for the frying pan.
Without ready-made dough, the process of making pies will take 2 hours.
Mix 2 tablespoons of melted butter with salt and place in sifted flour. Gradually add water while kneading the dough. Dust the board with flour and place the dough on it. Roll it out with a rolling pin. Cut the cold butter into small pieces and place them in the center of the dough, then roll it up and put it in the refrigerator.
After half an hour, take out the dough and roll it out so that the butter is not squeezed out from the edges. Cut it into several equal parts and stack them on top of each other in layers. Roll out again, divide into equal parts and stack them on top of each other.
Place in the refrigerator for 15 minutes. Roll out and fold in layers this way a couple more times.
Wash the dried apricots thoroughly, chop and mix with cottage cheese and sugar.
Roll out the dough thinly in one direction. Cut it with a knife into equal diamonds or squares. Place the filling in the middle of the pieces and bring the edges together.
Place the pies on a heated frying pan. Fry each side in oil.
Recipe 3: Curd dough for buns
Soft and surprisingly tasty buns are obtained without any filling. It’s simple and quick, especially if you find leftover cottage cheese in the refrigerator – the product is added and the dish is ready. You only have to add margarine and flour, and a little sugar for the filling.
Ingredients : cottage cheese (400 grams), margarine (200 grams), soda (half a teaspoon), flour (3.5 cups), salt, vanillin, sugar.
Cooking method
Grind the cottage cheese and add melted margarine. Mix everything well, add a little salt (on the tip of a knife). Quench soda with vinegar. Pour into the sifted flour and mix everything. Knead the dough - it turns out soft and sticks a little to your hands. It doesn’t matter - we leave it to ripen - put half in the freezer, divide the other half into 10 lumps and roll out into circles 5mm thick.
Pour a spoonful of sugar mixed with vanilla into the middle. Fold in half, then in half again - you get puff triangles with sugar inside. We pinch the edges and place them on a baking sheet, grease the top with vegetable oil and sprinkle with poppy seeds or cinnamon. Bake the buns at 180 degrees for about 30 minutes. Leave the finished golden brown buns under a napkin for 10 minutes until they become soft and fluffy.
